Examples

Luke 7:39-40,47  . . . the Pharisee . . . said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.” Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you. . . . her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”

Matthew 21:31  . . . I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

John 8:7  . . . He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.

John 9:41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

Matthew 15:23,28  . . . His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.” . . . Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.” . . .

Matthew 8:11-12 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 23:15,24,25,28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves. . . . You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel! . . . Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness. . . . outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Luke 13:23-28 One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” He said to them, “Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able. . . . Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’ There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

Matthew 7:22-23 Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Mark 2:16-17 The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “ . . . I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Luke 19:5,7  . . . Jesus . . . said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” . . . When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

1 John 1:10 If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.